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A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist .
Brigadier-General George Townshend's cartoons lampooning General James Wolfe in 1759 are recognized as the first examples of political cartooning in Canadian history. [3] Cartoons did not have a regular forum in Canada until John Henry Walker's short-lived weekly Punch in Canada débuted in Montreal in 1849.
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or current affairs in a national or international context.
In 2022, the Editorial Cartooning prize was superseded by the revamped category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, [8] [9] In response, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists "issued a statement calling for the Pulitzer board to reinstate Editorial Cartooning as its own category while also recognizing Illustrated Reporting as a ...
This is a list of editorial cartoonists of the past and present sorted by nationality. An editorial cartoonist is an artist, a cartoonist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. The list is incomplete; it lists only those editorial cartoonists for whom a Wikipedia article already exists.
Editorial cartooning awards (8 P) E. Editorial cartoons (23 P) N. National personifications (6 C, 106 P) Pages in category "Editorial cartooning"
The Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists (ACEC) is a professional association founded in 1988 in Winnipeg to promote the interests of editorial cartoonists in Canada. [1] [2] In 2015, it changed its name to Association of Canadian Cartoonists. [2] Townsie awards recognize exceptional contributions to cartooning in Canada. [3]
While earlier examples of Canadian comics tend to imitate American and British examples, over the course of the 20th Century, Canadian cartoonists have cut out niches of their own, as in Hal Foster's pioneering adventure comic strip work on Tarzan and Prince Valiant; [1] in Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse, readers follow the characters as they grow older and deal with a variety of ...